> As a housing support officer a few years ago I was supporting a

> older man with an acquired brain injury.

>

> He was receiving this scam mail. One of them promised that they would send

> him a newspaper from the future, that they were managing to get from a

> secret source! They even sent the most poorly written future "newspaper

> article", all about the receiver of the letter, how he had won the largest

> ever lottery amount and how he was such an incredibly deserving winner. It

> would have been laughable but vulnerable people like him DO believe scams

> even as reidiculous as this one was. The banner of the newsletter was

> partially blocked out, but clearly a famous paper. As the sender of this

> scam letter was in Lausanne, I think it was (lots of these scams seem to

> come from there), I contacted the paper, which was an international paper,

> so they could pursue the scammer.

>

> Your campaign is a valuable one, but there needs to be changes in the law

> and the powers to stop these scammers once and for all. Banning premium

> rate phone numbers would also be a help as they figure largely in a lot of

> the 'smaller' scams - after all there is no real reason why they should

> exist other than to separate people from their money.

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